John Grantham was dressed up in honor of 9/11 as he sold The Contributor at the corner of Dickerson Pike and Old Hickory Boulevard on Sept. 11, 2013 in Nashville.

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Joey Garrison
| The Tennessean

The executive director of Nashville's financially strained street newspaper, The Contributor, is "cautiously optimistic" about the publication's future and says it will continue to be published at least beyond this month.

An August Contributor issue with a front page headline "FINAL ISSUE?" kicked off a fundraising drive to save the publication, which offers homeless or former homeless people a chance to earn an income by selling copies on street corners.

Executive Director Tasha French Lemley at the time said The Contributor, a nonprofit organization, would be producing its final ...